Palisade, Nevada

Palisade is an unincorporated community in Eureka County, northeastern Nevada, located 33 miles southwest of Elko. Palisade is a very small town, and it had a population of 211 people in 1992. Palisade was built along the First Transcontinental Railroad's route, and it was said that its residents staged gunfights and bank robberies whenever a train passed by as part of an elaborate hoax.